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Hotlands,
Just trying to help, and I am not sure of your beekeeping experience. But wax moths do not kill hives. A weak queen, a queenless hive for an extended period, and a number of other conditions can allow the moths to infest and eventually take over a hive. I hope you seek the reason the moths had this oppotunity so it does not happen again.

Thanks to all for the replies to my nuc inquiry. I'm a novice, so I had thought I cold buy a nuc now to be in place and laying by end of january. Guess I'll cool my heels 'til mid-spring. By the way, I found a Tulsa source. Bjorn... yes, I have been advised that wax moths are really a symptom, more than a cause, of a troubled colony. I haven't yet determined what weakened the hive so. The population was down to a few hundred dead and extremely weak bees when I inspected this past weekend. The queen was dead in their midst. Further inspection revealed a second dead queen laying on the bottom board. There was a fair amount of uneaten honey. At this point I don't have any idea, really.
Thanks again,
R.

Hey Hotlands,
You probably already thought of this, but you should preserve whatever combs and honey you can for your new bees - it would give them a big boost. Freezing the combs for a day or two will kill the wax moth lavae.